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CNY Feature: Cheap eats, huat ah!
If you're not at the receiving end in this season of ang paos, chances are you'll need a breather from expensing cash. If you're busy visiting friends and relatives to collect red packets, chances are you're eating too much.
Either way, everybody needs eat less generously. It's time to do a roll call of the cheapest foods around town. Cheapest and good-est.
Live from the Reunion Table at East Ocean Teochew Restaurant
8. 步步高升 East Ocean “Nian Gao” Oh boy, I can barely move my mouth. And here we have a traditional Chinese sticky cake that legend says was designed to shut the trap of the Nian beast. He was swallowing up way too much Chinese villagers, you see.
I don’t eat too much Nian Gao, but I remember better ones coming out from my supergran’s kitchen. This one’s neither crispy nor tasty (I remember it being sweeter and sharper and annoyingly stickier). Totally forgettable.
That's all for Japan folks!
Till my next trip to the city in... I dunno, some time this 2013 :) Meantime, I'll be feeding my blog with more yum yum.
Coming up next: • A little rambling about a not-so-Chinese Hokkien Mee • Last Friday Rumblings: December, Chikuwa Tei • CNY Feature: 15 days of cheap eats
Watch this space.
The Kitto Katto Obsession It seems like any Singaporean (and I've just discovered, Indonesian too) who visits Japan, comes home with Kit Kat. I usually purchase a box or two of Green Tea/Sakura Green Tea from DFS and give it out to friends and family. But this last trip, I was tasked to find as many different flavours as possible.
Which opened my eyes to the crazy variety of the chocolate wafer out there.
Early on, I saw a special Tochigi Strawberry edition. Knowing I won't be able to get it elsewhere, I bought it. Then I left the rest of my Kit Kat shopping for the last day of my trip... a little too late to discover it was out of stock almost everywhere.
After trawling the supermarkets of Keio, Marui and Lumine in the Shinjuku area and asking information counter girls, I realised that no Japanese really knows much about Kit Kat at all. It's a tourist obsession specifically, the Singaporean tourist's obsession.
I finally managed to get a few boxes at New Days, a convenience store commonly found in and around subway stations. After coming home, I heard from other Kit Kat obssessed fans that these flavours are seasonal. If you missed a flavour, you've missed it forever.
I'll definitely miss Tokyo Rum Raisin and Kuromitsu (Black Honey). Of the bunch, they're my fave.
Top-left photo courtesy of Roycelyn To.
Rumbly Christmas everyone!
Hey guys, it's the merry season of eating and drinking. This week, I'll be taking a break from the writing, but not from the yum yum. See you in the next year!
Live from Tokyo and my other blog.
Last Friday Rumblings: December
Chikuwa Tei 7:30pm, 28 December 2012 http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/chikuwa_tei/
RSVP: [email protected]
Join me? Only two seats available. :) Please note that it's a pay-your-own dinner. Also, I prefer to review incognito, so I ask that you don't deliberately give me away to the restaurant staff. :)
